Onyxia's Lair solo?

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I just tried soloing Onyxia's Lair.Managed to get to the phase where she was in the air, but the mobs [that] spawned hits too hard for me to handle. And, as if that was bad enough, I can't DPS them down quickly enough.

Had blown all my defensive spells just to, at least, attempt to survive that phase..3 attempts, failed all 3 times.

you don't need 'endgame' gear. it's very easy to do in dps gear. simply when the adds spawn put diseases up, pestilence, death strike until you get full death runs and spam heart strike until they are all dead. ghoul sacrifice+ lichborne heal if you drop low.

you don't need 'endgame' gear. it's very easy to do in dps gear. simply when the adds spawn put diseases up, pestilence, death strike until you get full death runs and spam heart strike until they are all dead. ghoul sacrifice+ lichborne heal if you drop low.

Are you kidding me? I died in around 15 seconds, and this was with 378 tank gear - NOT DPS gear..

You don't have time to use Outbreak + Pestilence...You're dead long before.You're not only being attacked by mobs, but also by the boss flying above and spraying fire down..

I found it fairly easy, but very long. I killed the bigger adds as higher priority than the whelps since they could die from disease/heart strike/death and decay damage. The fight took 23 minutes, since I had to take off ~1M of her health with ranged abilities. :l

I can see he is wearing t11 normals and also a few pieces of heroic 346 blues.

Again, then there's no way he did it.The boss took 30k of my hp, each spray of fire - unless i used Anti-Magic-Shell.Her hitting me weren't that much of a problem. Death Strike would mostly overheal that..Again, the Whelps killed me every time.

I can see he is wearing t11 normals and also a few pieces of heroic 346 blues.

Again, then there's no way he did it.The boss took 30k of my hp, each spray of fire - unless i used Anti-Magic-Shell.Her hitting me weren't that much of a problem. Death Strike would mostly overheal that..Again, the Whelps killed me every time.

You are doing something wrong then. The encounter is not hard at all, it's just an inasne boredom (has come easier with the better gear)

You need to avoid that. It's avoidable, just run to the sides when she's about to do it (Onyxia takes a deep breath!). Where the fire comes is dependant on where she is at the moment, so keep your head up!

Well, your gear for tanking could use some work. Crank up with enchanting, crank up the mastery and gem with it in mind (red - parry/dodge mastery, yellow - straight mastery, blue - mastery stamina) and with prioritised death strikes your survivability should ramp up. Reforging should go as thus: mastery (honestly, best tank stat) > parry/dodge (have them about equal) > expertise/hit (don't concern getting to the cap) > crit/haste (hopefully you know this much).

Onyxia is a very easy raid compared to many other solable raids. I don't know if it's solable on heroic (I will try that out). Just do aoe dmg when onyxia is in the air and hold the mobs close to yourself for making it easy. Guardians are really a good solo class atm, I saw a guardian solo Lichking on heroic difficulty for a week ago.